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UPDATE: 6:30 PM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus Update, Over 40,700 Deaths, May 11, 2020, 6:00 PM
NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF MAY 11, 2020, 6:00 PM CEST):
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) announced this afternoon, May 11, 2020, that Coronavirus has taken the lives of more than 40,700 in 316 cities across Iran.
The death toll in various provinces include: 6830 in Tehran, 2950 in Khorasan Razavi, 2260 in Khuzestan, 1615 in Alborz, 1261 in Golestan, 1100 in Hamedan, 560 in Markazi (Central), 280 in Ilam. This is in addition to cases registered in other provinces.
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UPDATE: 5:30 PM CEST
Maryam Rajavi: The UN Security Council should condemn the Iranian regime’s criminal cover-up of the spread of COVID-19, costing the lives of people in Iran and other countries
The UN Security Council should condemn the Iranian regime’s criminal cover-up of the spread of #COVID19, costing the lives of people in #Iran and other countries pic.twitter.com/Vr6QAwBAcP
— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 11, 2020
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UPDATE: 3:30 PM CEST
Iran’s Regime in Terminal Decline, Panicking About Losing Its Grip on Power
By: Struan Stevenson
When the disintegrating socialist state of Venezuela, where the people are starving, starts flying planeloads of gold to the collapsing theocratic regime of Iran, the world should sit up and take notice. Due to their status as international pariahs, both of these oil-producing nations are under US sanctions, banning their ability to export oil.
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UPDATE: 11:30 AM CEST
Iran: Coronavirus death toll exceeds 40,500 in 315 cities
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Sunday, May 10, 2020, that the Coronavirus death toll in 315 cities in Iran has exceeded 40,500. The number of victims in Tehran is 6,790, Gilan 2,720, Khuzestan 2,165, West Azerbaijan 1,230, Lorestan 1,070, Hamedan 1,065, Kermanshah 975, Semnan 925, and Kerman 446.
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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST
Distressed Families of Sheiban Prison Inmates Hold Protest
Families of Sheiban Prison Inmates demand to have information about the fate of their loved ones.
Distressed families of Sheiban Prison inmates gathered Saturday outside the prison gates to demand news on the fate of their loved ones.
A video shared on social media shows the mother of poltical prisoners Jaber and MokhtarAlboshokeh, sobbing and bewailing among the protesters.
Ahvaz, SW #Iran
The mother and family of 2 political prisoners at Sheiban Prison demand news on the fate of their loved ones outside the prison gates.#HumanRights pic.twitter.com/LuApjbCwT4— IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) May 9, 2020
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UPDATE: 10:30 AM CEST
Young woman sentenced to have eyes gouged out in northeastern Iran
A young Iranian woman was sentenced to have her eyes gouged out in northeastern Iran. Identified as F.M., the 30-year-old woman was tried by the 5th Branch of the Criminal Court of Khorasan Razavi Province.
According to the court ruling, she is to be blinded in both eyes, but her eye sockets should stay intact.
This is not the first time that the mullahs’ regime has issued inhumane sentences. Cruel and inhumane punishments are institutionalized in the laws of the mullahs’ regime. Articles 269 to 293 of the Third Book of the Islamic Penal Code describe all the conditions for retribution.
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UPDATE: 10:00 AM CEST
Iran, Tehran: Employees of the regime’s state-run TV gathered today to protest discrimination and express their economic woes
They want their unpaid wages and paycheck raises. Reports indicate that Iran Protests by state-run TV employees are unprecedented.
#Iranians say they don’t have cellphones and can’t afford internet packages to use the regime’s “Shad” app, used by teachers to teach students during the #COVID19 epidemic when schools are shut.
And yet, the regime continues to steal their money to pay its proxies. pic.twitter.com/DwKbv6VE5L
— Iran News Wire (@IranNW) May 11, 2020
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Iran news in brief, May 11, 2020
Iran: Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 40,500 in 315 Cities
Iran’s Regime Shuts 147 Shops, Arrests 3 People for Eating in Ramadan
Defiant Youth Target IRGC and Bassij Centers
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WHAT ARE THE IRAN PROTESTS OF 2019?
Monday, May 11, 2020, marks the 179th day since the beginning of the nationwide Iran protests.
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has identified 755 of the more than 1500 protesters killed by the regime so far.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has called on the United Nations to urgently send an international fact-finding mission to Iranian prisons to meet with the detainees.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UPRISING:
Number of uprising cities: 191
Number of martyrs: At least 1500
Number of injured: More than 4,000
Number of detainees: More than 12,000
Read more: Latest News in Brief- May 10, 2020
